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Romania

We work for The Muzika Charitable Trust, an arts charity which since 1990 has been sending artists and music, dance and drama therapists out to Romania to work with special needs children, as well as training teachers, carers and psychologists on creative approaches. Our most recent project was a one week course funded by UNICEF at the Art Therapy Centre, Timisoara, for adults from all over Romania. The theme was 'Storytelling as Therapy'.

One World, Many Voices

We have spent several years researching and travelling (in South America, Africa, Romania, Hungary, Madagascar and most recently in Tibet) to prepare for this project on Childhood throughout the World. Now, finally we launched it in November in Leeds schools.  The response and empathy from the children was enormous, and their creativity boundless!
We hope to have this one-day project available for several years and will be constantly updating it.

World Myth and Landscape

This is another constantly expanding project. We have been asked to do many residencies on myth and culture from countries as diverse as Australia (aboriginal stories and art), Japan, South America (Incas, Aztecs and Mayans), Classical myths and legends from Greece and Italy, Celtic and Icelandic myths, art and myths from Africa and the Caribbean, and more recently we have been doing workshops on ‘Unique Madagascar – bio-diversity and landscape’.

We have found that using Storytelling and Puppetry to explore the relationship between landscape and culture is a dramatic and exciting way to motivate children, and explain the importance of geography and the environment in the making of mythology, art and history.

Away with the Fairies

This is a new project for Early Years, involving Mary on her own. Researching, devising and making the puppets will take several months, and she is hoping to have the first performance and workshop ready by September, 2006. Bookings can be made in advance of course!

The Twelve Gods of Mount Olympus

Ken is adding to his repertoire of ancient Greek myth and legend a day long project focussing specifically on the twelve Olympian Gods, and their stories.